Her thoughts: While I'd never normally be this dressy at the office, I do really like this look. It was also pretty easy. For my hair, I just applied the smoothing cream and blow dried with a paddle brush (I didn't worry about getting it too straight since it was going in a bun anyway). Then I sprayed the shine spray into my hands and smoothed it over my hair (the bottle recommended this for fine hair, which mine definitely is). Then I ran my bangs through the flat iron, put my hair into a low ponytail, loosely braided it and wrapped it around the base and pinned into place.

My makeup was a little more involved, but still didn't take very long. I did my usual foundation and concealer, then lined my eyes with black pencil and followed up with black powder shadow. I lined my lower inner rims too -- which normally totally creeps me out -- and I think it was a nice touch. Then I used the pinky-peach side of the Maybelline palette for my lids and swiped on some blush.

My lips took a little experimenting to get close to Rashida's color. I used the CoverGirl stain, but it was a little dark, so I lightened it with the lipstick and gloss. What I learned: when in doubt, just keep layering, removing and playing until you're happy with it. After all, it's just makeup.

Unfortunately, it looks like this project was too hard to execute. Nothing looks like the "celebrity" photos. This looks more like an experiment in 'interpretation' and not 'replication'. I do appreciate that staff took the time to attempt the looks.